The Brazilian Federal Court has lifted the final embargo on Alunorte’s new bauxite residue disposal (DRS2) under a criminal lawsuit, Norway’s Norsk Hydro said on Thursday. This allows the alumina refinery to resume activities of installation and commis…
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The recent decline in the underlying prices of various lithium raw materials, including spodumene, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate, is not worrying London-listed Savannah Resources chairperson Matthew King too much.
In fact, if projections by …
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The recent decline in the underlying prices of various lithium raw materials, including spodumene, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate, is not worrying London-listed Savannah Resources chairperson Matthew King too much.
In fact, if projections by …
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Global iron-ore major Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with steel producer China Baowu Steel Group and Tsinghua University to develop methods to reduce carbon emissions and to improve the environmental performance across the ste…
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Lithium Americas, which is developing lithium projects in Argentina and US, is contemplating a smaller Phase 1 operation at its Thacker Pass project, in Nevada, with its production plan slashed by one third.
The Vancouver-based company said on Wednesd…
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Although gold companies may have turned a financial corner in 2016, spending will not return to the heights of the past decade and priority will be given to reinvestment in brownfields assets, rather than the development of greenfield projects, researc…
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Germany’s K+S Group has followed its potash rivals by announcing a reduction in fertiliser production for potassium chloride, citing a weak market environment.
The company, which owns potash mines in Canada, has announced an up to 300 t cut in product…
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Dual-listed Osisko Gold Royalties on Monday announced that it would buy TSX-V-listed Barkerville Gold Mines in a transaction that valued the owner of the Cariboo gold project, in British Columbia, at C$338-million, while also launching a new project de…
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US coal miner Peabody’s share price fell to an all-time low on Friday, after the St Louis-based company announced the previous day that it was terminating a cash tender offer to buy back $1-billion in debt.
The company on Thursday terminated its cash …
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British Columbia-based Fission Uranium on Monday outlined the potential for “highly economic “ production at the Patterson Lake South (PLS) project in the Athabasca basin of Saskatchewan by focusing on an underground-only mining scenario.
Shifting to…
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